Linking hospital patient records for suspected or established acute coronary syndrome in a complex secondary care system : a proof-of-concept e-registry in National Health Service Scotland
Abstract
Aims To implement secondary care electronic record linkage for patients hospitalized with suspected or known acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a complex regional health care system and evaluate this e-Registry in terms of patterns of service delivery and 1-year outcomes. Methods and results Existing electronic hospital records were linked to create episodes of care using (i) a patient administration system, (ii) invasive cardiovascular procedure referrals, and (iii) a catheter laboratory record. Data were extracted for admissions (1 October 2013-30 September 2014) with International Classification of Disease (ICD)-10 diagnosis of angina (I200-I209), myocardial infarction (I210-I229), other ischaemic heart disease (I240-I249) or heart failure (I50), linked to other sources to develop a secondary care ACS e-registry and analysed within a Safe Haven. Episodes of care were categorized into care pathways and evaluated in terms of patient characteristics, as well as service delivery metrics and outcomes including mortality. In all, 2327 patients had 2472 episodes of care. Diagnoses were hierarchically classified as ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (586, 25.2%), non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) (1068, 45.9%), unspecified myocardial infarction (146, 6.3%), unstable angina (527, 22.6%) for the first hospitalization for each patient within the study period. Six care pathways were mapped. Percutaneous coronary intervention rate for STEMI was 80.2% and for NSTEMI 33.1%. Unadjusted all-cause mortality was 9.0% and 3.0% for STEMI and NSTEMI at 30 days, rising to 11.9% and 11.6% at 1 year. Analyses were validated by independent source data verification. Conclusion The e-registry has enabled analysis of ACS hospitalizations in a complex health care system with implications for quality improvement and research.
Citation
Findlay , I , Morris , T , Zhang , R , McCowan , C , Shield , S , Forbes , B , McConnachie , A , Mangion , K & Berry , C 2018 , ' Linking hospital patient records for suspected or established acute coronary syndrome in a complex secondary care system : a proof-of-concept e-registry in National Health Service Scotland ' , European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes , vol. 4 , no. 3 , pp. 155-167 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcy007
Publication
European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2058-5225Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unre-stricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Description
Funding: AstraZeneca UK Ltd, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Golden Jubilee Foundation supported this project. Clinical Training Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation (FS/15/54/31639 to K.M.)Collections
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